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Our next #GuildChat takes place Friday, October 19th at 11am PT / 2pm ET. Our topic for this week’s chat is on Building Your Network. Networking is a critical activity today from online to face to face we have more opportunities than ever to build connections that increase our opportunities, …

This guest post comes to us from Myra Roldan, an Instructional Designer at Amazon. She’s also an upcoming speaker at our 2018 Realities360 Conference, where she’ll be speaking about rapid development for both augmented reality and virtual reality. As a now seasoned speaker, I have been able to look at L&D conferences through a …

Our next #GuildChat takes place Friday, February 16 at 11am PT / 2pm ET. Our topic for this week’s chat is part one of two on proposing and presenting at L&D events. If you spoken at an L&D event or are considering the idea for your first time, then this is the …

In the previous posts in this series you’ve explored the entire main conference session programming process. It starts with the Program Team (me, Mark Britz, and David Kelly) evaluating all the proposals individually, continues with us comparing and contrasting our evaluations with each other, and then finishes with us using the strongest sessions to build the final program. But …

Our next #GuildChat takes place Friday, August 25th at 11AM PT/2PM ET. This week’s topic is Skilling Up. We know we can’t turn to our employers alone to help us stay current today, this is especially true for organizational L&D (really? just how many company created courses or programs have you …

In our first look at the conference programming process Bianca shared our individual review process. In this next post I’ll provide you a closer look at how we go about collaboratively selecting sessions for the conference. After we have individually gone through each of the proposals and entered either a Yes, …

In an ideal world we could go to every single conference that we had even a passing interest in. Of course, that’s not quite how it works in the real world, and budget and time restraints often leave us needing to be quite strategic when it comes to choosing the …

You can attend one conference this year – which one should it be? This is an important question. Those who are lucky enough to attend an event normally only get to choose one each year. With all the options that are available, it’s important to make a good choice, one …

Our next #GuildChat takes place Friday, March 25 at 11am PT / 2pm ET. Our topic for this week’s chat is Pre to Post: Learning Through the Conference Experience. Attending an industry conference can be an opportunity for a rich experience filled with social, informal and formal learning opportunities. It …

Conferences are one of my favorite ways to learn. In a few short days, I’ll be headed to Orlando for one of my favorite conferences of the year: The Learning Solutions Conference & Expo. One of the reasons people love Learning Solutions (and eLearning Guild Conferences in general) is that …

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